Flora Magadaline Mendes

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

The Respondent was convicted on four counts of providing immigration advice/services while not a qualified person, contrary to Sections 84 and 91(1) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. Her appeal against conviction was dismissed. The Tribunal, proceeding in her absence after refusing her adjournment applications, found that by virtue of the conviction she breached Principles 1, 2 and 6. The Tribunal found lack of integrity (not dishonesty), high culpability, financial gain, vulnerable victims, and no insight or mitigation. She was struck off the Roll and ordered to pay costs of £1,238.

Duties found breached:

• Integrity
• Non-discriminatory acceptance and cab-rank
• Uphold public trust in the profession

Aggravating factors:

• Misconduct involved commission of four criminal offences
• Deliberate, calculated and repeated conduct
• Offences spanned 26 January 2013 to 16 September 2014
• Vulnerable clients (immigration matters affecting right to remain)
• Most likely motivated by financial gain
• Breach of position of trust
• Respondent must have known conduct was in material breach of obligations